GoW: 14 & 15

Free write: Reflect on and write about a time when you realized there was more power in a "we" than in an "I".



Character Groups: check in. What have we learned about your character?

Discussion questions:
1. Chpt 14 repeats the following line:
"The Western land, nervous under the beginning change." (150)
"The Western States nervous under the beginning change." (151)
"The Western States are nervous under the beginning change." (152)

What are the literal differences between these lines? What impact do those differences have on the meanings of these lines? And why repeat this idea?

2. Chpt 15: What causes Mae's prejudice to fade?

3. In the introduction of The Grapes of Wrath, Michael Szalay says, "[Grapes] does not solves problems but makes compassion, empathy, and commitment not only possible but desirable in a class-stratisfies society" (xv).  Where is this evident in Chapters 14 & 15.